Hacker News: kdklol

New comment by kdklol in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

kdklol — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:54:15 +0000

I'm glad to see somebody is getting some data on this, I feel bad memory is one of the most underrated issues in computing generally. I'd like to see a more detailed writeup on this, like a short whitepaper.

New comment by kdklol in "Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf]"

kdklol — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:49:21 +0000

I was recently searching for NiMH charging ICs, turns out they basically don't exist. Most devices which charge their NiMH batteries implement low CC charging, which is slow. It's a shame, because NiMH batteries do have their advantages (safety, ease of finding replacements, etc.) and can be recharged fairly quickly if the charger is smart enough.

7 Tips to Successfully Micromanage Programmers (2018)

kdklol — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:48:31 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@marcusblankenship/7-ways-to-effectively-micromanage-your-programmer-6e6f4ef159f4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726945

Points: 18

# Comments: 3

Javalab – Free interactive science simulations written in JavaScript

kdklol — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://mully.net/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757486

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kdklol in "You can't just assume UTF-8"

kdklol — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:18:22 +0000

>You can't just assume UTF-8

But I will, because in this day and age, I should be perfectly able to do so. Non-use of UTF-8 should be simply considered a bug and not treating text as UTF-8 should frankly be a you problem. At least for anything reasonably modern, by which I mean made in the last 15 years at least.

Homeless Software Engineering Vlogger? [video]

kdklol — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:55:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5POOknPt3os

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kdklol in "Can Europe's trains compete with low-cost airlines?"

kdklol — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:39:58 +0000

https://archive.is/MrQfx

New comment by kdklol in "Show HN: Hacker News Userscript Written in Rust WASM – Filtering and Hiding"

kdklol — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:25:54 +0000

This is a nice and easy-to-use tool, it's a shame your submission died!

New comment by kdklol in "Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:59:03 +0000

UPDATE! I translated the article: https://pastebin.com/Ve3gXMQn

New comment by kdklol in "Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:55:32 +0000

It's not wrong though. Besides North America, there are major carriers in India, France who use IPv6-only networks (with 464XLAT), and I know several South American and Asian countries have them as well. In fact, India is a world leader in IPv6 adoption. Nowadays it's a very common for mobile networks to be IPv6-only because these providers haven't been able to secure large Ipv4 subnets in the early days. Ironically, they have the most devices. However, this is also the reason why phones work much better with XLAT than Windows or Linux.

New comment by kdklol in "Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:44:54 +0000

By 2032, it's virtually certain IPv6 is going to be the majority protocol. For instance, see Google's numbers:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

New comment by kdklol in "Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:39:51 +0000

You are correct, Czechia is a parliamentary democracy. Usually, the government is formed by the parties that together have a legislative majority in the lesser chamber.

I should clarify that this is not a law, rather a "government decision" (a la "executive order") on how to act on it's law. Forgive me, I'm not well versed in legal English, and the systems are quite different.

New comment by kdklol in "Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:50:37 +0000

Allow me to append a short summary in English:

- The Czech government adopted a new directive titled "The restart of DNSSEC and IPv6 enrollment in the government"

- Until yesterday, no administration on the European continent has made such a decisive step as setting a end-of-support date for IPv4

- Selected date is highly symbolic, the 6th of June, 2032, the 20th anniversary of the World IPv6 day

- This decision has already sparked discussion on the RIPE NCC forums

- "It's a signal to all internet players to take IPv6 seriously"

- Nevertheless, the EU itself has already taken even greater leap towards IPv6 adoption

Czech government to stop offering services over IPv4 on 6.6.2032

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/odvazny-krok-ceske-vlady/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060187

Points: 24

# Comments: 16

New comment by kdklol in "A 2024 Plea for Lean Software"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:47:37 +0000

Yes, I meant upload, sorry. Downloading from a page is trivial. I was more concerned ith the case of grandma sending a picture or similar.

New comment by kdklol in "A 2024 Plea for Lean Software"

kdklol — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:22:14 +0000

I don't disagree, but few non-techies will be able to download an image off of an FTP server or mount an NFS share. Thats where such a service adds value.

New comment by kdklol in "Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?"

kdklol — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:32:22 +0000

Good question! It's spiking up on weekends, the reason for that is that corporate networks are not as incentivized as large public ISPs to adopt IPv6. They have a lot more customers and are more directly affected by IPv4 exhaustion, especially the mobile providers.

New comment by kdklol in "Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?"

kdklol — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:27:36 +0000

There's a management system that assigns IPs automatically, written in-house in the late 2000s, but yes, anything there can be manually overridden. He was probably diagnosing something earlier and forgot to clean up. Meanwhile, new students moved in I guess.

Missing IPv4 addresses are not reported as some systems are left IPv6-only intentionally. It's a dorm network, but it's sort-of a research project at the same time. It is also run by students themselves (there's a "student's union") and the school does not pay or maintain the dorm's infrastructure.

I know alerting is done for some things, but not for the individual student's machine. This is different for every dorm, but in this case, a wired symmetrical gigabit connection is provided to every member student, public IPv4 and IPv6 included. The only restriction is to not download torrents, besides that, pretty much anything can be arranged, including opening port 25, routing additional IPv6 prefixes, hosting...

It's a very free environment is what I'm getting at.

New comment by kdklol in "Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?"

kdklol — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:39:48 +0000

That's the most expensive resume you could probably have! I don't have access to a whole /22, but I'm now tempted to do this at a smaller scale, thanks for the idea!

New comment by kdklol in "Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?"

kdklol — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:34:06 +0000

No, in general, the smallest block of IPv6 addresses you can "own" is /24. You have to pay yearly fees to your RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as an ANS (Autonomous system). Think of it as owning land and paying a land tax.